Closing the book on The Closers

I finished the The Closers last week. As usual, what the book seems to be about at the beginning proves not exactly what one's left with at the end.

In many ways, this book ends up being about people using people. Bosch does some soul searching when a plan he thinks up to use a criminal as bait to flush out the person he thinks is the real killer of a young girl ends up getting someone killed. At the end of the day though, the corruption scandal that Bosch uncovers in the course of his investigation gets solved in a way that leaves him feeling somewhat used as well. I would recommend this book to any fan of the kind of police procedural that actually take some time out for character development.

I have started reading Number9Dream. So far so good: the first few chapters seem to be a cross between Memento, Bladerunner, and Lost In Translation. I wasn't expecting the kind of day-after-tomorrow sci-fi aspects of it, so I'm pleasantly surprised. More on this one later.